From: Mike Gold <mike.gold.4433@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T06:29:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Any solutions to Ruby's inconsistencies?

Todd Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:52 AM, C. Dagnon <c-soc-rubyforum@dagnon.net> 
> wrote:
>> Interesting...  I hadn't learned about the *ect's.  I have used collect
>> (never map, yuck),
> 
> Hmm, let me think about that method name... you are "mapping" a set of
> things into another set (I'm using "set" for a simple group of
> things); "collect" makes much less sense to me.  What exactly are you
> collecting?  Probably just vernacular used in CS circles that I'm not
> aware of, but silly nonetheless.

I suspect it is from Common Lisp's loop:

  (loop for i from 1 to 3 collect (* i i))
  ==> (1 4 9)

You can do a bazillion different things inside a CL loop; collecting 
results is just one of them.  The loop terminology doesn't really fit 
here.

I prefer 'map' since that is the name for the operation in other 
languages (including Lisp).
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